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Extraction of intracellular protein from Escherichia coli is traditionally achieved by mechanical disruption. A chemical treatment that destroys the integrity of the bacterial cell wall and could provide an alternative technique is examined in this study. Treatment with a combination of the chelating agent ethylenediam... |
Continuous production of a recombinant murine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) by Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain XV2181 (a/a, Trp 1) containing plasmid palphaADH2 and immobilized on porous glass beads in a fluidized bed bioreactor was studied. Kinetic models for plasmid stability, cell growth,... |
The kinetics of bacterial oxidation of ferrous iron in the presence of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans cells were studied using an initial-rate method. Measurements of the redox potential of the solution during the oxidation of ferrous iron were used to assess the initial rate of the reaction. Effects on the rate of reaction... |
We have developed a methodology based on experimental design, to optimize a polyacrylamide gel as the support for enzyme immobilization, taking advantage of all the properties which this type of gel has. Monomer and crosslinking agent proportions are responsible for both the porous structure and pore size of the gel. A... |
The effects of multiple xylanase treatments were assessed during the peroxide bleaching of three pulps: Douglas-fir (kraft); Western hemlock (oxygen delignified kraft); and trembling Aspen (kraft). The addition of a xylanase treatment stage, either before or after the peroxide bleaching stage(s), resulted in the enhanc... |
A new improvised urea sensor is described. The new sensor makes use of entrapment inside reversed micelles as a method for enzyme immobilization and glass electrode for the purpose of sensing. Urea content in clinical blood samples has been estimated using this new sensor. Agreement of the results thus obtained with th... |
A peptide termed P189, derived from the sequence of a newly discovered protein, AAMP (angio-associated migratory cell protein), contains a motif that is predicted to a bind heparin. It occurs near the amino terminal end of AAMP. Previous studies have shown that in its solubilized form P189 (RRLRRMESESES) binds heparin ... |
Nonlinear elution chromatography of proteins employing the traditional mobile phase modulators in IMAC has been studied using the metal affinity interaction model (MAIC) in conjunction with the chromatographic mass transport equations. Results indicate that when the feed is loaded under conditions that foster constant ... |
Xylitol production with two recombinant Sacharomyces cerevisiae strains expressing the XYL1 gene, coding for xylose reductase (XR), at different levels, the 'low XR strain' at 0.51 U/mg and the 'high XR strain' at 10.8 U/mg, was compared in batch and fed-batch culture. Xylose was not consumed in the presence of high gl... |
Gliosis is strongly implicated in the development and maintenance of persistent pain states following chronic constriction injury of the sciatic nerve. Here we demonstrate that in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, gliosis is accompanied by changes in glial amino acid transporters examined by immunoblot, immunohistoch... |
Stem cells and progenitor cells derived from the developing human brain have been shown to differentiate into neurons and astrocytes. However, few studies have examined the functional, physiological properties of these differentiated neurons and astrocytes. In this study we have used immunocytochemistry in combination ... |
The co-ordinate functioning of neurons and glia is required for glutamate-mediated neurotransmission. In this study, we show by immunocytochemical detection of D-aspartate uptake, that functional glutamate transporters are present in the developing CNS of fetal and neonatal rats, including forebrain, midbrain and hindb... |
Various animal models are available for studying human multiple sclerosis (MS). Most of them model the initial phase of MS,including the immune-triggered attack of the myelin membrane and/or oligodendrocytes and, occasionally, demonstrate there mission and relapsing phases. However, few mimic the late chronic demyelina... |
The high level of intercellular communication mediated by gap junctions between astrocytes indicates that, besides individual astrocytic domains, a second level of organization might exist for these glial cells as they form communicating networks. Therefore,the contribution of astrocytes to brain function should also b... |
Myelin formation and maintenance depends on the establishment of two structurally and biochemically discernible domains: (a)compact myelin, that is multilamellar stacks of plasma membrane sheets; and (b) cytoplasmic channels that border the compact myelin domains, attach them to the cell body and anchor the myelin shea... |
To ensure rapid and efficient impulse conduction, myelinated axons establish and maintain specific protein domains. For instance, sodium (Na+) channels accumulate in the node of Ranvier; potassium (K+) channels aggregate in the juxtaparanode and neurexin/caspr/paranodin clusters in the paranode. Our understanding of th... |
There is increasing evidence that severe mood disorders are associated with impairment of structural plasticity and cellular resilience. Cumulative data demonstrate that mood stabilizers regulate intracellular signaling cascades, including protein kinase C (PKC), PKA, mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase, glycogen sy... |
Minocycline, a tetracycline derivative with pleiotropic biological effects, exhibits anti-inflammatory properties in several models of CNS disease. In addition to reducing production of inflammatory mediators, it has been postulated that minocycline might also be directly neuroprotective under these circumstances. Ther... |
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are characteristic of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a human genetic disorder affecting approximately 1 in 3000 individuals. The absence of neurofibromin in Schwann cells results in hyperactivation of Ras, which contributes to Schwann cell hyperplasia. However, additio... |
Of the axonal signals influencing myelination, adhesion molecules expressed at the axonal surface are strong candidates to mediate interactions between myelinating cells and axons. The recognition cell-adhesion molecule L1, a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily has been shown to play important roles in neuronal mi... |
Neural progenitor cells that express the NG2 proteoglycan are present in different regions of the adult mammalian brain where they display distinct morphologies and proliferative rates. In the developing postnatal and adult mouse, NG2(+) cells represent a major cell population of the subventricular zone (SVZ). NG2(+) c... |
The elucidation of genotype-phenotype relationships in psychiatric research is at an early stage. V-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog 1 (AKT1) is a serine/threonine kinase known as protein kinase B. Emerging studies have implicated the role of AKT1 in pathogenesis of schizophrenia; however, the findings have no... |
To analyze the relationships among the aberrant methylation of Runx3 gene promoter, the Runx3 protein expression and clinicopathological features in gastric cancer. |
The effect of shear alone on the aggregation of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) and recombinant human deoxyribonuclease (rhDNase) has been found to be insignificant. This study focused on the synergetic effect of shear and gas-liquid interface on these two model proteins. Two shearing systems, the concentric-cy... |
Pure cultures of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, Nitrosomonas europaea, were exposed to trichloroethylene (TCE), 1,1-dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE), chloroform (CF), 1,2-dichloroethane (1,2-DCA), or carbon tetrachloride (CT), in the presence of ammonia, in a quasi-steady-state bioreactor. Estimates of enzyme kinetics constants... |
Multiplicity of steady states of a continuous culture with an inhibitory substrate was used to estimate kinetic parameters under steady-state conditions. A continuous culture of Pseudomonas cepacia G4, using phenol as the sole source of carbon and energy, was overloaded by increasing the dilution rate above the critica... |
A recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae C468/pGAC9 (ATCC 20690), which expresses Aspergillus awamori glucoamylase gene under the control of the yeast enolase I (ENO1) promoter and secretes glucoamylase into the extracellular medium, was used as a model system to investigate the effect of cell immobilization on bioreacto... |
Semipurified lipase of Candida rugosa (CRSL) was subjected to chemical modification, and the activities of the modified lipase, in hydrolysis and esterification reactions, were examined. The esterification reactions were carried out in the absence and presence of isooctane. When the enzyme was modified with polyethylen... |
Large phosphatydilcholine unilamellar vesicles appear to be suitable controlled and protective delivery systems of beta-galactosidase. Kinetic measurements carried out on intact loaded liposomes show that most of the enzyme is entrapped inside the liposomes and its activity is latent. Nevertheless, intact liposomes als... |
Formation of noncovalent complexes between alpha-chymotrypsin (CT) and a polyelectrolyte, polybrene (PB), has been shown to produce two major effects on enzymatic reactions in binary mixtures of polar organic cosolvents with water. (i) At moderate concentrations of organic cosolvents (10% to 30% v/v), enzymatic activit... |
A carboxylic acid functionalized dendritic polybenzyl ether has been synthesized and used with its sodium salt to generate a novel acid/base buffer soluble in nonpolar organic solvents. The effect of different ratios of the two buffer forms on the catalytic activity of subtilisin Carlsberg and chymotrypsin was investig... |
Chloroperoxidase from Caldariomyces fumago was applied for the oxidation of indole to oxindole using hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant in aqueous t-butyl alcohol medium. Different ways of adding the oxidant, various reactor types, and the use of a hydrogen peroxide-stat were compared, resulting in a 20-fold increase of ... |
Two microorganisms showing high omicron-transaminase activity (Klebsiella pneumoniae JS2F and Bacillus thuringiensis JS64) were screened by the enrichment method using (S)-alpha-methylbenzylamine (alpha-MBA) as a sole nitrogen source. Optimal carbon and nitrogen sources for enzyme induction and the properties of omicro... |
A mathematical model for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is developed, taking into account the three steps in this process: melting of DNA; primer annealing; and DNA synthesis (polymerization). Activity and deactivation of the polymerase enzyme as a function of temperature is incorporated in the kinetic model to get a ... |
The water activities (a(w)) of 13 salt hydrate pairs were determined from vapor pressure measurements; a(w) values for a subset were also estimated from a study of water transfer to isopropylether. The application of salt hydrates as water buffers was investigated in two models: (i) effect of hydration on the initial r... |
Viruses have evolved to efficiently direct the resources of their hosts toward their own reproduction. A quantitative understanding of viral growth will help researchers develop antiviral strategies, design metabolic pathways, construct vectors for gene therapy, and engineer molecular systems that self-assemble. As a m... |
Lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia was used for asymmetric hydrolysis of the substrate (+/-)1-chloro-2-acetoxy-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-propane, which is a precursor for (S)-(-)-beta-blocker synthesis. Because this substrate is insoluble in water and partially soluble in hydrophobic solvents such as hexane and octane, a mixture ... |
In metabolic engineering, systems which allow coordinated control of two metabolic pathways can be useful. We designed two expression systems and demonstrated their application by coordinating glycogen synthesis and degradation. The first expression vector pMSW2 expressed the glycogen synthesis genes in one operon and ... |
Overexpression of the homologous protein proteinase A (PrA) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been achieved by inserting the PrA gene (PEP4) with its own promoter on a 2mu multicopy plasmid. With this system the specific PrA production rate was found to be described well by a linear function of the oxidative glucose meta... |
The dynamics of growth and death of immobilized Nitrosomonas europaea were studied. For this, the death rate of suspended cells was determined in the absence of ammonium or oxygen by following the loss of respiration activity and by fluorescein-diacetate (FDA)/lissamine-green staining techniques. The death rates obtain... |
Experiments were carried out aimed at establishing the effects of equipment scale down on the disruption of Baker's yeast cells in high pressure homogenisers. Data are reported on the cell debris particle size distribution (PSD) and on total protein release as a function of the applied pressure for two valve geometries... |
In this work the quality and activity of immobilized Beneckea natriegens have been measured using Specific ATP (SATP) [mg (ATP) g(-1) (dry biomass)] and Specific Oxygen Uptake Rate (SOUR) [mg O(2) g(-1) (dry biomass) h(-1)]. The cells were grown in a 3 L Three Phase Air Lift Bioreactor (TPALB) and were immobilized on d... |
Tangential flow filtration has traditionally been scaled up by maintaining constant the filtrate volume to membrane surface area ratio, membrane material and pore size, channel height, flow path geometry and retentate and filtrate pressures. Channel width and the number of channels have been increased to provide increa... |
Microbial growth on mixtures of substrates is of considerable engineering and biological interest. Most of the work until now has dealt with microbial growth on binary mixtures of sugars or polyols. In these cases, it is often found that no matter how the inoculum is precultured, only one of the two substrates is consu... |
Three metabolic models for the production of ethanol, glycerol, and carbohydrates in yeast are optimized with respect to different production rates. While originally nonlinear, all three optimization problems are reduced in such a way that methods of linear programming can be used. The optimizations lead to profiles of... |
The objective of the research was to obtain insights into the behavior of microorganisms under feast/famine conditions as often occur in wastewater treatment processes. The response of microorganisms to such conditions is the accumulation of storage polymers like poly(beta-hydroxybutyrate). The research was performed u... |
Catalytic activity of lipases (from Rhizopus arrhizus, Canadida rugosa, and Pseudomonas sp. was studied in organic media, mainly diisopropyl ether. The effect of water activity (a(w)) on V(max) showed that the enzyme activity in general increased with increasing amounts of water for the three enzymes. This was shown bo... |
The bottleneck of the application of manganese peroxidase (MnP) on an industrial scale in pulp biobleaching or in degradation of hazardous compounds is the lack of an efficient production system. Three main problems arise for the continuous production of MnP during secondary metabolism of Phanerochaete chrysosporium: e... |
A genetic strategy to enhance recombinant protein production is discussed. A small DNA bending protein, Fis, which has been shown to activate rRNA synthesis upon a nutrient upshift, was overexpressed in E. coli strain W3110 carrying vector pUCR1. Overexpression of Fis during exponential growth was shown to activate rrn... |
The S-System formalism provides a popular, versatile and mathematically tractable representation of metabolic pathways. At steady-state, after a logarithmic transformation, the S-System representation reduces into a system of linear equations. Thus, the maximization of a particular metabolite concentration or a flux su... |
The purified lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia (PS, Amano) was immobilized on a commercially available microporous polypropylene support. The enzyme was rapidly and completely adsorbed on the support. Special attention was devoted to the demonstration of the lack of diffusional limitations, either internal or external, w... |
Factors that control the performance of a reversible immunosensor with an analyte (progesterone)-enzyme (horseradish peroxidase) conjugate as signal generator have been investigated. The conjugate is used in conjunction with two antibodies, which are specific to progesterone and to horseradish peroxidase, immobilized o... |
In the field of biocatalysis in nonaqueous media, water has been identified as a crucial parameter which has to be carefully controlled. This article studies the continuous operation of a water-producing enzymatic reaction, here the esterification of oleic acid by ethanol in n-hexane catalyzed by Lipozyme(TM). The conv... |
The purpose of present review is to describe the effect of leucine supplementation on skeletal muscle proteolysis suppression in both in vivo and in vitro studies. Most studies, using in vitro methodology, incubated skeletal muscles with leucine with different doses and the results suggests that there is a dose-depende... |
In proteomics a paradox situation developed in the last years. At one side it is basic knowledge that proteins are post-translationally modified and occur in different isoforms. At the other side the protein expression concept disclaims post-translational modifications by connecting protein names directly with function... |
The protective action of nerve growth factor (NGF) on delayed neuronal death (DND) after transient cerebral ischaemia and on the associated decrease in microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) has been investigated. Transient forebrain ischaemia was induced for different periods (2 min, 5 min, and 8 min) in male Wistar ... |
Computed tomography (CT) scan was performed within 6 h in 91 patients with minor head injury (MHI). Eight patients (9%) demonstrated intracranial lesions on CT scan (6 brain contusions, 1 brain edema and 1 extradural hematoma). No patient required craniotomy. In patients with normal CT scan, no complications to the hea... |
The effects of 3,4-dihydro-6-[4-(3,4-dimethoxybenzoyl)-1-piperazinyl]-2(1H)-quinolinone (vesnarinone) on the growth of glioma cells were examined in vitro. Vesnarinone at a dose of 100 mug/ml suppressed the growth of four different glioma cell lines, U-251MG, U-373MG, U-87MG and A-172, by approximately 50%, with an elo... |
Development of neuroprotective strategies for the treatment of cerebral ischaemia depends upon knowledge of the pathophysiological responses which occur during the period of ischaemia and during reperfusion. Both in vitro and in vivo studies have been used to accumulate this base of knowledge; a brief examination of th... |
Previous reports have shown that McArdle's disease may occasionally present in older patients (i.e. greater than 40 years of age) as a progressive myopathy that is clinically and sometimes electrophysiologically indistinguishable from idiopathic polymyositis. We report two such patients who in addition had muscle biops... |
A retrospective review of supratentorial, low-grade astrocytomas in adults over a 10-year period (1983-1993) was performed. All 62 patients had computed tomography and surgery with histological and immunohistochemical analysis of the tumour. Radiotherapy was administered to all patients, regardless of the extent of sur... |
Axonal injury (AI), an important determinant of clinical outcome after traumatic head injury in adults, has been little studied in child neurotrauma. In this experimental model, 10 anaesthetised, ventilated and physiologically monitored 4-5 week old lambs sustained a temporal impact to an unconstrained head. Examinatio... |
A rare case of neurosarcoidosis presenting as an isolated quadrigeminal plate mass without systemic manifestation of this disease is reported. This 26-year-old man presented with symptoms of acute intracranial hypertension including headache, morning vomiting as well as a right homonymous hemianopsia. Magnetic resonanc... |
We propose that elevation of mitochondrial enzyme cofactors may prevent or ameliorate neurodegenerative diseases by improving mitochondrial function. In the present study, we investigated the effects of high doses of B vitamins, the precursors of mitochondrial enzyme cofactors, on mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative s... |
Reduced cognitive function is associated with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases as well as brain trauma and ischemia. However, there are few compounds that enhance memory and are also orally active. We recently synthesized a pyrazole derivative of curcumin called CNB-001 that enhances the activity of Ca(2+)/calmodul... |
Mucins are high molecular weight glycoproteins with complex oligosaccharide side chains attached to the apomucin protein backbone by O-glycosidic linkage; they are found in crude mucus gels that protect epithelial surfaces in the major tracts of the body and as transmembrane proteins expressed on the apical cell surfac... |
Protein kinase C (PKC) is involved in cell activation. We investigated PKC-mediated pathways and secretion of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in phagocytosis by human retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE). We used time-resolved fluorometry for europium-labeled microsphere uptake and gel zymography to assay the influe... |
Integrity of the extracellular matrix (ECM) is essential for maintaining the normal structure and function of connective tissues. ECM is secreted locally by cells and organized into a complex meshwork providing physical support to cells, tissues, and organs. Initially thought to act only as a scaffold, the ECM is now k... |
Although serum-free media have been widely used in mammalian cell culture for therapeutic protein production, the effects of serum-substitutes on product quality have not been extensively examined. This study observed an adverse effect of Primatone RL, an animal tissue hydrolysate commonly used as a serum-substitute to... |
The effect of bcl-2 expression on cell viability and recombinant protein synthesis was investigated in the Spodoptera frugiperda Sf-9 and Trichoplusia ni BTI-Tn-5B1-4 (High Fivetrade mark) insect cell lines. It was found that coinfection with a baculovirus expressing bcl-2 [Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis v... |
Two mathematical models of chondrocyte generation and nutrient consumption are developed to analyze the behavior of cell growth in a biodegradable polymer matrix. Substrate reaction and diffusion are analyzed in two regions: one consisting of cells and nutrients and the other consisting of only nutrients. A pseudo-stea... |
Although reactions in substrate suspension are employed in industry for several bioconversion processes, there appears to be no quantitative model available in the literature to rationalize the optimization of these processes. We present a simple model that incorporates the kinetics of substrate dissolution and a simul... |
D-Hydantoinase is an industrial enzyme widely used for the synthesis of optically active D-amino acids. A gene encoding thermostable D-hydantoinase of Bacillus stearothermophilus SD-1 has previously been cloned and constitutively expressed by its native promoter in Escherichia coli XL1-Blue (Lee et al., 1996b). In this... |
The kinetically controlled condensation reaction of Z-Gly-Trp-Met-OR(1) (R(1): Et, Al, Cam) and H-Asp-(OR(2))-Phe-NH(2) (R(2): H, Bu(t)) catalyzed by alpha-chymotrypsin deposited onto polyamide in organic media was studied. The effect of the drying process of the enzyme-support preparation, substrate concentrations, re... |
This review is based on our recent experience in producing the first commercial recombinant proteins in transgenic plants. We bring forward the issues that have to be considered in the process of selecting and developing a winning transgenic plant production system. From the production point of view, transcription, pos... |
Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has been used to quantify the alpha-helix and beta-sheet contents of subtilisin Carlsberg dissolved in several nonaqueous, as well as aqueous, solvents. Independently, the catalytic activity of the enzyme has been measured in the same solvents. While our previous FTIR stud... |
A model for cometabolism is verified experimentally for a defined methanotrophic mixed culture. The model includes the effects of cell growth, endogenous cell decay, product toxicity, and competitive inhibition with the assumption that cometabolic transformation rates are enhanced by reducing power obtained from oxidat... |
A method for the continuous affinity separation of proteins is described in which the adsorbent, in the form of a polymer belt, is recycled through feedstock and eluent liquid flows. As the belt is nonporous, contact between the solute and the ligand is not diffusion-dependent. Consequently, rapid cycle rates are possi... |
The application of a stoichiometric medium design approach was studied in fed-batch cultivation of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. A serum-free medium containing a very low protein concentration (2 mg/L insulin) was developed. A supplemental medium was formulated according to the stoichiometric equation governing ce... |
Modifying substrate uptake systems is a potentially powerful tool in metabolic engineering. This research investigates energetic and metabolic changes brought about by the genetic modification of the glucose uptake and phosphorylation system of Escherichia coli. The engineered strain PPA316, which lacks the E. coli pho... |
A mathematical model is formulated to describe trends in biomass and penicillin formation as well as substrate consumption for fed-batch cultivations. The biomass is structured into three morphological compartments, and glucose and corn steep liquor are considered as substrates for growth. Penicillin formation is assum... |
The ability of Tween 20 to reduce the adsorption of albumin on silicon surfaces of different hydrophobicity was investigated by ellipsometry. As expected, protein adsorption was found to depend on the degree of hydrophobicity of the surfaces and on the concentration of the surfactant. A reduction of 90% in albumin adso... |
Whereas protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) and prolyl isomerase (PPI) are considered as efficient protein folding catalysts, very few large scale processes use them because of economical and technical limitations. PDI and PPI were successfully immobilized on cross-linked agarose beads. PDI inactivation during coupling r... |
In an effort to better understand the role of the substrate in the rapid fall off in the rate of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose with conversion, substrate reactivity was measured as a function of conversion. These measurements were made by interrupting the hydrolysis of pretreated wood at various degrees of conversi... |
Lipase from Candida rugosa immobilized on a nylon support has been used to synthesize lovastatin, a drug which lowers serum cholesterol levels, by the regioselective acylation of a diol lactone precursor with 2-methylbutyric acid in mixtures of organic solvents. Analogs of lovastatin having a different side chain were ... |
The development of therapeutic resistance, after hormone or chemotherapy for example, is the underlying basis for most cancer deaths. Exposure to anticancer therapies induces expression of many stress related proteins, including small heat shock proteins (HSPs). HSPs interact with various client proteins to assist in t... |
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a membrane-bound, 170 kDa, protein tyrosine kinase that plays an important role in tumorigenesis. The EGFR gene, which is composed of over 168 kb of sequence, including a 123-kb first intron, is frequently amplified and rearranged in malignant gliomas leading to the expres... |
DNA microarray technology has been a valuable tool to provide a global view of the changes in gene expression that characterize different types of B cell lymphomas, both in relation to clinical parameters but also in comparison with the non-malignant counterparts. The number of transcripts that can be analyzed on an ar... |
The ribosome is essential for protein synthesis. The composition and structure of ribosomes from several organisms have been determined, and it is well documented that ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) and ribosomal proteins (RPs) constitute this important organelle. Many RPs also fill various roles that are independent of protei... |
The accelerated growth of proteomics data presents both opportunities and challenges. Large-scale proteomic profiling of biological samples such as cells, organelles or biological fluids has led to discovery of numerous key and novel proteins involved in many biological/disease processes including cancers, as well as t... |
This study has confirmed, by the use of immunological and molecular tools, that the recent failures of vaccination against infectious bursal disease (IBD) encountered in Europe were not related to antigenic variation, but to increased virulence of the circulating IBD virus strains. Neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (M... |
The nucleotide sequence of the haemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) glycoprotein gene of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) variant strain V4(UPM) was determined by direct genomic RNA sequencing and confirmed by cycle sequencing. The gene comprises 1996 nucleotides encoding a 615 amino acid protein of size 67.4 kDa. The nucleo... |
To investigate changes of p53 expression, p53 phosphorylation, and their subcellular localizations and activated protein 1 (AP-1) activity on human embryo lung fibroblasts (HELF) induced by benzo(a)pyrene (B(a)P), and relationships between p53 and AP-1. |
To explore the bcl-2 and the bax protein expression, the effect and possible mechanism of phytic acid (IP6) on cell proliferation in human gastric carcinoma. |
To study the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) localization of CpTI protein in sck transgenic rice. |
To study the localization of ferroportin1 (FP1) protein, the protein and mRNA expression of FP1 in the last trimester placenta of different iron status of pregnant women. |
To prepare Sudan I-HS conjugates with the carrier protein for developing a new immune assay for Sudan I. |
To investigate the mRNA and protein expression of nucleostemin (NS) in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. |
Structural characterization of proteins used in biological experiments is largely neglected. In most publications, the information available is totally insufficient to judge the functionality of the proteins used and, therefore, the significance of identified protein-protein interactions (was the interaction specific o... |
To investigate the associations between polymorphisms of apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide-like 3G (APOBEC3G) and different outcomes of HBV infection in the Chinese Han population. |
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